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Wise Buddah secures music commissions
Wise Buddah has picked up a hat trick of commissions from BBC Radio 2. Time Team star Tony Robinson will front Tony Robinson's Classical Feast. Former Radio 1 DJ Steve Lamacq will examine the state of the UK music ...
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Industry tackles lapse in training
An initiative to tackle the growing lack of skills training across the audio-visual industries was launched by a group of broadcasting organisations this week.
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Tiger grows production
Tiger Aspect has bolstered its comedy and entertainment department with two new appointments, as well as scoring a commission from MTV.
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Ofcom to act if quality of regional ITV suffers
Ofcom has told MPs it will act if further studio closures threaten ITV's ability to deliver high-quality regional programmes.
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Industry votes on board for UK Post
Members of the post-production community have shown their faith in the UK Post steering committee by awarding all its members seats on the full board.
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Machine Room adds HD and offline services
The Machine Room has spent£300,000 on HD grading and offline services.
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Condor takes on Flame artist
Condor Post-production has recruited Flame and Smoke artist Gary Driver, reuniting him with his former boss Tom Horton.
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422 goes Wild with Bill Oddie
Bristol-based 422 South has completed a branded graphics package for Britain Goes Wild with Bill Oddie for the BBC. A bird emblem was set in different natural environments using a hand-drawn logo by Howard Moses, who also created hand-made models for the sequence, including ice ...
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TSI posts new Test the Nation
TSI Post has built the graphics for Talent TV's upcoming Test the Nation. The questions and answers package was created by Mark McKenna on Smoke HD. The Mac systems that were previously used had struggled to keep up with the workflow. 'Working on HD ...
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Oasis finishes Pavarotti doc
Oasis Television has completed audio work on BBC documentary Pavarotti - the Last Tenor. Director Francis Hanly chose Oasis dubbing mixer Hugh Mitchell-Dawson to drive the audio desk, saying: 'I've always worked with Hugh because he has a good feel for music and we ...
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Gearbox guarantee
GearBox Sound and Vision is going to guarantee a within-the-hour delivery service to Soho-based companies, via a new service called Gearbox Express. Managing director Richard Eastwood felt that the needs of the Soho community demanded that they 'get as close as possible to where our clients are based'. Eastwood said ...
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Cut & Run in LA tie-up
London's Cut & Run has joined forces with US-based Swietlik Editorial and executive director Christie Cash to open an office in LA. Cut & Run Los Angeles will represent the combined editorial roster in the US while UK operations will trade under Cut & Run London. Owner Steve Gandolfi believed ...
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Rushes Europe push
Rushes has promoted Vittorio Giannini to senior producer/new business executive to drive sales of Rushes services and creative staff to the continent. His remit includes re-establishing links with new and existing clients in France, Italy, Germany and Scandinavia. Giannini will answer to Carl Grinter, director of production and business development.
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Audio reseller set up
HHB Communications has launched a reseller division to supply audio kit to the television post-production sector. Headed by former Tyrell sales manager Ben Nemes the new branch will be called Scrub and will sell and service Digidesign systems and extras. The new division will initially employ three people and be ...
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Virgin brand to lead SMG push
SMG is to exploit its key Virgin Radio brand by creating two digital spin-offs that will
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Carlton kids team bounce back with indie
Carlton's former controller of children's David Mercer has set up a new indie along with members of his old team who failed to find jobs within the newly merged ITV.
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BBC to feature entrepreneurs
The BBC is to launch its own business entertainment format featuring wannabe entrepreneurs.
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Awards honour young talent
Dublin-based Daniel O'Hara won best young director award at Wednesday (19 May) night's Broadcast Young Talent Awards.
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5 Live nabs O'Connell
Former Xfm breakfast DJ Christian O'Connell is to take over from Johnny Vaughan as the host of BBC Radio 5 Live sports debate show Fighting Talk. O'Connell, who picked up the Sony Award for best DJ last week, will start on 14 August when ...
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NBC orders US office
NBC has ordered six episodes of a US version of Ricky Gervais' award-winning sitcom The Office , despite the pilot being panned by critics. The sitcom will be renamed The American Workplace to distinguish it from the original UK version, ...